Development plans and priorities

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Waze is growing fast in features and popularity. This is not a complete list of development areas, but should reassure you that Waze is aware of your concerns and is working to make things better.

Current development focus includes:

• Upgrading the worldwide infrastructure, allowing Waze to support the growing number of users while making the service more reliable
• Bug fixing
• Integrating features to generate revenue for Waze
• Releasing the same features for Android and iOS
• Adding the ability to search for location by UK postcodes
• Supporting correct routing of authorized vehicles on Carpool, HOV, Transit lanes. Waze currently supports taxis, and private vehicles.
• Implementing a web interface to allow editors to immediately close streets for a specified period.

Recently completed:

• Upgrading the World servers, which has increased the reliability and speed of editing maps
• Improved the routing in areas of Private Roads and Parking Lot Roads
• ASR (Automated Speech recognition)
• TTS (Text to Speech voice guided: turn-by-turn instructions that announce the street names for upcoming turns) in multiple languages
• Gas price integration
• POI category search
• Toll Road avoidance
• Time of day turn restrictions
• Time of day road directional changes
• Implementing road blocks and road closures